A remote-controlled roadside bomb targeting a minibus killed at least 10 people and wounded several others on Tuesday in Pakistan's remote northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official in the region said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Shahid Ali Khan, a senior regional Pakistani official, told Reuters militants planted a roadside bomb in the Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). "When the passengers were coming, they detonated the remote-controlled bomb," said Khan, who is the assistant political agent for Kurram Agency in FATA, which borders Afghanistan. Several major attacks have rocked the Kurram Agency area this year, including a bomb blast at a mosque that killed more than 20 people in March in Parachinar. In January, a bomb planted in a busy vegetable market also killed 21 people.

Source: The Star April 25, 2017 06:11 UTC